"Moonlight" writer-director Barry Jenkins was invited to join both branches, as was "Get Out" writer-director Jordan Peele. "Hidden Figures" director Theodore Melfi and documentarian Ezra Edelman, who won an Oscar for "O.J.: Made in America," also received invitations.

'Late Night': Chrissy Metz's Lunch With Oprah

Seth Meyers chats with Chrissy Metz, who dishes on her lunch with Oprah. When she got the invitation, she thought she was being "Punk'd."

The film academy reports the new class of potential members is 39 percent female and 30 percent non-white. The organization has been diversifying its ranks after two years of #OscarsSoWhite and criticism of its overwhelmingly white and male voting body.